These infections, very frequent and often benign, cause precancerous lesions of the cervix and 6,000 cases of cancers in women and man.
mo12345lemonde With AFP
Accompanied by the Ministers of Health and Education, Emmanuel Macron announced, Tuesday, February 28, in Jarnac, in Charente, a “generalized” vaccination campaign in colleges to eradicate the papillomavirus.
“We will generalize from the next school year for the 5th,” said the head of state during a meeting with students in a college in Jarnac (Charente). “This avoids a lot of cancers,” added Emmanuel Macron. These announcements come four days before the World Awareness Day around diseases induced by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Extremely frequent, these infections are most of the time benign, but they can persist and lead to cancer: HPVs are responsible for 2,900 cancers of the cervix causing more than 1,000 deaths per year, 1,500 Cancers of the ENT sphere, 1,500 cancers of the anus, 200 cancers of the vulva or vagina and a hundred penis cancers. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), these cancers would be completely eliminable thanks to screening and vaccination.
experimentation in the Grand Est
Now, the rate of vaccination coverage is currently in France 37 % for girls and 9 % for boys, while the ten-year strategy to fight against cancers 2021-2030 is targeting an 80 % lens by seven years.
Vaccination is now recommended for girls and boys between 11 years and 14 years old. It can also be proposed in catch -up until the age of 19 and remains possible up to 26 years for men who have sex with men.
An experiment carried out in the Grand Est for two years has shown good results among young school schools in 5th grade, the vaccination rate going from 9 % to 27 % in the first year and from 14 % to 31 % per second .
In Australia, where vaccination takes place in school, the rate of people infected with HPVs causing the cervical cancers rose from 22.7 % in 2005-2007 to 1, 5 % in 2015 in young women aged 18-24, while forecasts count on eradication of cervical cancer within 15 years.